How to access your website through LAN in ASP NET

Question

I have an asp net web-page application and i want it to be accessed using a local area network LAN  or wireless area network WLAN    I do not know where to start  Is there something that i will configure in order for others to access my web-page     I would really appreciate your answer  thanks a lot

User · Answer

You may also need to enable the World Wide Web Service inbound firewall rule.

On Windows 7: Start -> Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Advanced Settings -> Inbound Rules

Find World Wide Web Services (HTTP Traffic-In) in the list and select to enable the rule. Change is pretty much immediate.

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I m not sure how stuck you are   You must have a web server  Windows comes with one called IIS  but it may not be installed    Make sure you actually have IIS installed  Try typing http   localhost  in your browser and see what happens  If nothing happens it means that you may not have IIS installed  See Installing IIS   Set up IIS How to set up your first IIS Web site You may even need to Install the  NET Framework  or your server will only serve static html pages  and not asp net pages    Installing your application  Once you have done that  you can more or less just copy your application to c  wwwroot inetpub    Read Installing ASP NET Applications  IIS 6 0  for more information  Accessing the web site from another machine  In theory  once you have a web server running  and the application installed  you only need the IP address of your web server to access the application   To find your IP address try  Start -  Run -  type cmd  hit ENTER  -  type ipconfig  hit ENTER   Once    you have the IP address AND  IIS running AND  the application is installed    you can access your website from another machine in your LAN by just typing in the IP Address of you web server and the correct path to your application   If you put your application in a directory called NewApp  you will need to type something like http   your ip address NewApp default aspx  Turn off your firewall  If you do have a firewall turn it off while you try connecting for the first time  you can sort that out later

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If you use IIS Express via Visual Studio instead of the builtin ASP net host  you can achieve this   Binding IIS Express to an IP Address

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You will need to configure you IIS  assuming this is the web server your are will using  allowing access from WLAN LAN to specific users  or anonymous   Allow IIS trought your firewall if you have one   Your application won t need to be changed  that s just networking problems ans configuration you will have to face to allow acces only trought LAN and WLAN

[asp.net] How to access your website through LAN in ASP.NET

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